Maltese Falcon Book Review

A great fan of detective novels.

Maltese falcon book review. Of course the characters brought to the screen in 1941 by humphrey bogart sydney greenstreet peter lorre. Sam spade the fat man joel cairo brigid o shaughnessy. Book review 4 out of 5 stars to the maltese falcon a classic mystery novel written in 1930 by dashiell hammett. May 9 2017 july 20 2017 ian g.

Thoughts about books i ve read of late menu. The maltese falcon by dashiell hammett. The maltese falcon was originally serialised in hl mencken s pulp magazine black mask from september 1929. Book reviews to ponder.

The maltese falcon has everything. If you ask a mystery fan when the genre started a good chunk of them will say during the golden age 1920s 30s with authors like dashiell hammett specifically with the creation of the sam spade character. In my ever growing attempt to expand my reading parameters i turned to my latest reading challenge book. The maltese falcon is a riveting novel that takes the reader on a journey with samuel spade a private investigator as he discovers the truth about his newest client mrs.

All of these names will stir the memories of any lover of hard boiled detective fiction. Wilson book review the maltese falcon by dashiell hammett by ian g. Then it was published in book form by alfred a knopf in february 1930.